The complete mitochondrial genomes of three Ellobius mole vole species (Rodentia: Arvicolinae)

Olga V Bondareva; Ahmad Mahmoudi; Semen Yu Bodrov; Evgeny A Genelt-Yanovskiy; Tatyana V Petrova; Natalia I Abramson

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1778567

The complete mitochondrial genomes of three Ellobius mole vole species (Rodentia: Arvicolinae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jun 17;5(3):2485-2487. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1778567.

Authors

Olga V Bondareva¹, Ahmad Mahmoudi², Semen Yu Bodrov¹, Evgeny A Genelt-Yanovskiy¹, Tatyana V Petrova¹, Natalia I Abramson¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Molecular Systematics, Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia.
² Department of Biology, University of Urmia, Urmia, Iran.

Abstract

The subterranean voles of the genus Ellobius are species of subfamily Arvicolinae well adapted to underground life. In this paper, we report the assemblies of complete mitochondrial genomes for three mole voles from genus Ellobius - northern mole vole Ellobius talpinus (16,376 bp), transcaucasian mole vole E. lutescens (16,540 bp), and southern mole vole E. fuscocapillus (16,388 bp). Each of three mitogenomes encode for 12S and 16S rRNAs, 22 tRNAs, 13 protein-coding genes, and D-loop in the characteristic arrangement of subfamily Arvicolinae (Rodentia: Cricetidae). This study verifies the evolutionary status of subgenera Bramus and Ellobius within the genus Ellobius at the molecular level. The mitochondrial genome would be a significant supplement for the Ellobius genetic background. The three Ellobius species formed a monophyletic group with the high bootstrap value (100%) in all examinations.

Keywords: Ellobius; Mitochondrial genome; NGS; phylogenetic trees.

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by RFBR grant [N 18-04-00730] (sampling, DNA extraction) and Russian Science Foundation grant [N 19-74-20110] (sequencing and data analysis).